15
Years since the major league team with the game's highest-paid player on its Opening Day roster made the playoffs; the 1986 Mets won their division with top earner Gary Carter.
300 million
Estimated TV viewers in China for countryman Wang Zhizhi's debut with the Mavericks last Thursday.
2
Horses, of the 40 starters, who finished Britain's rain-plagued Grand National, which was won by 33-1 long shot Red Marauder.
$400,000
Amount Sears is paying the owners of the apartment building at 3631 N. Sheffield Avenue in Chicago this year to put the company's name on a rooftop sign overlooking Wrigley Field.
16-0
The Rockets' record against teams in the NBA's Central this season, only the second time in league history that a team has swept an entire division.